How was Naomi "motherly" during the visit to the hospital?
Livliv-On page 117 when Skyla doesn't want Owen to keep wearing his tape but Owen still wants to, Skyla gets mad and says that if he doesn't his new bike is going in the trash. Then Naomi says, "It wouldn't hurt anything." That shows that she can stand up for Owen even if Skyla has temper swings. When Skyla was telling Naomi to start packing she said to Skyla, "You can't tell us what to do." that means that she is sticking up for herself and Owen.
Lighthouse-I agree with Livliv!
asa9111-I agree to!
Wiiings9000-Naomi is motherly because she does what she does not normaly do she stood up for Owen and said the tape wouldn't hurt anyone,it is just tape, not a knife or a gun.
Pufferfish- she told Owen that everything was all right. Also, she stood between Skyla and Owen and told her that Owen could wear tape because it wouldn't hurt anyone.
What do you think Skyla was referring to when she was on the phone?
Livliv-I think that Skyla was talking to Clive and saying that she was going to bring Naomi to Las Vegas with her, but that she wasn't going to bring Owen after what had happened at the Children's Hospital.
Pufferfish- I think that she was talking to Clive and saying that Naomi was coming, but Owen was not, because the doctors couldn't do anything for him until he was older and Skyla thinks he's a Blem.
Dog998- I think Skyla was talking to Clive about finding a way to have Naomi come along with them.
asa9111-I also think that Skyla was talking to Clive and saying that Naomi would come to Las Vegas and Owen wouldn't because of his disabilities.
Why or why not do you think Skyla would really hurt Gram?
Livliv-I think that Skyla would hurt Gram if she was drunk, but I also think that Skyla might just be threatening Naomi to tell her, if you don't come, there's going to be trouble.
Lighthouse- I think that she would really hurt Gram so Naomi would officailly be her child, but she probabley wouldn't take Owen in, but Naomi wouldn't go, but if their father shows up he might be able to take them instead of Skyla.
jd58 - I normally might have thought that Skyla was bluffing but in this case she sounded dead serious. She said, "You know if anything happens to Gram all you'll have is me anyway. something could happen to her any time now, old as she is. You wouldn't want that, would you?"
Pufferfish- I think she might hurt Gram so Naomi comes, but I think she's just threatening, because she would go to court and wouldn't kill her grandma, even though she's so horrible.
Dogs998- I think Skyla said that because he was mad and posibly drunk. But maybe if Skyla gets more drunk and crazy she might do some harm to Gram in a fisical way.
Pick an intense moment in the chapter and INVENT dialogue that you think one of the characters involved really wanted to say. Start with the page number, then the line in the book that comes right before your invented dialogue. Then begin your creative writing! It should be a solid paragraph worth of writing. There is a LOT here to be very emotional about!
Lighthouse- pg 115
"This kid's a Blem. He's crooked and he can't talk right. Well, that's no bargain in my book!", Skyla's face started turning a deep red. Suddenly, a deep feeling arose in me, a feeling I have never felt before.
"Skyla, how could..... how could you say that about your OWN son! It's not his fault he was born like that, in fact it might have been YOUR fault because", Skyla's to big, round eyes met my eyes like a hawk, I didn't want to finish my sentence, what would Skyla say. I didn't care about her, my own mother was insulting my brother, I finished the sentence anyway,"Because you are alcoholic. Maybe, just maybe if you hadn't done all those bad things, he wouldn't have been this way. Don't yell Owen and the doctors for your mistake," I started lowering my voice, Skyla's face turned even more red before.
"WHAT? How did you know? It is NOT my fault for what Owen looks like now," by that point Skyla was screaming. All of a sudden, Owen walked in. He must have heard what Skyla was saying, and what I was saying. A small tear went down his cheek.
"Is that r-r-really why I am like this, because you were drinking and taking drugs?", Owen said this in a small unconfident voice.
Skyla turned a bright pink, the doctors stared at her. She atarted to talk very softly,"Of course not, why would you say such a thing,". In a loud boming voice she said,"Naomi and Owen get all of your stuff, were leaving," and she bomed out of the room, barely caring about us.
Jman10- pg.122
"I know you can hear me, Naomi. Your going with me one way or another!"
As soon as she said that Owen and I were almost at the heart of the grove. I
thought I would never go back untill Skyla would think she would be late to
pick up Saphire. I looked at Owen who was behind another tree and said "I
know why you are like this way. I saw a beer bottle in Clive's car and havent
you noticed she smells like rum, well its because she drinks rum." Owen
looked at me as if I were crazy but he nodded in agreement.
LivLiv-pg 117
I was shaking leaf but my instincts moved my body right between Owen and Skyla. I said, “It doesn’t hurt anything.” The second I said it I knew it was the wrong thing. Skyla pushed Owen aside and looked at me with the eyes of a hawk. “You’re going to be the one hurting Naomi sweaty pie if you don’t shut your mouth. You know the more I get to know you guys the more I realize what a genius I was to leave you with your idiot Gram.” “D-d-don’t c-call G-Gram, an i-idiot.” Sputtered Owen, and then tapped the place on his chest where the tape lay with pride. “Look little squirt don’t you dare tell me who I can’t call an idiot and who can.” Spat Skyla had if the words were like bullets shooting out of her mouth. Then Owen darted behind me so Skyla’s glare would not meat his eyes. I didn’t know what to say. I wanted to explode, and I could almost fell the steam about to come out of my ears. Skyla smirked at me with a you-can-never-beat-me, kind of look, and I wanted to scream in her face and punch her and grab her now pumpkin colored hair and pull it all out! Then I asked a question. The question that had been aching in my heart just to spill out. “W-why did you leave us?” and as I said it I felt stupid, and ashamed that I asked such a childish question. The next thing I heard was no surprise to me. “That is none of you business, thank you very much!” Skyla said back. Then she extracted a small bottle from her purse and swigged a huge gulp. Right there is when I couldn’t take it any longer, there she was, drinking and not caring about any of this, while my heart was throbbing and my mind was spinning in circles. Then I blew up. “You say your so embarrassed that Owen is a birth defect! But all this time you havn’t realized that it is YOUR fault! If you hadn’t been drinking before he was born he might have been normal! You take no responsibility for what you have done you, you monster!” I was so alarmed about what had just come out of me, what I had just said. As Skyla thaught of her reply I pondered over what I had said. Could it have been true that she had been the cause of Owen being a birth defect? The more I thought about it the more a red hot burning felling of hatred crawled to the side of my mind where Skyla was.
Pufferfish- That she might kill Gram? I felt my temper rising from a place I never knew existed. "First of all, if you hurt Gram, you'll be in trouble, and second of all, I'm not going with a drug addict! And why did you even call Owen a Blem? Why would you hate your own child? You might even be the cause of him being like this, since you probably were drinking all the time!" Owen stared at Skyla. "You take drugs?" he whined. Skyla talked quietly. "No one talks to me like that, and I mean no one." Her voice began to get louder and angrier. "I need these to help me get through my life, and it's none of your business. Now, Naomi," she said, her voice switching to sugar, "help me find that rose tulip lipstick, you know we are two peas in a pod?" "No we aren't." And with that I shoved her against the sofa, grabbed Owen's arm, opened the door, and ran till I got to Fabiola's house.
jd58-pg 119
A mean, stomp-my-foot feeling rose from a place I didn't know existed in my mind. I wished I could throw my anger at Skyla and yell, so I did. I scremed at the top of my lungs "you are no mother you abanded us during a storm! You don't take care of us Gram does and does a great job you couden't take care of us if you tried. I am also not going to Las Vegas with you and Clive I like it here with my freinds and gram and owen. I am not going to Las Vegas no matter what you say or tell me!!
"Dogs"- A sleepy eyed Owen turned to as me baby beluga shook more and MORE.I went over to Owen and held tight to his soft and warm hand and then I fell!! But not only did that happen the next thing I knew I fell into a deep, deep dream."Walk honey!!" said a pregnant and yound version of Skyla, right next to her was a man he looked a lot like me and he said "Yes please come my beautifull Naomi!!" What wat did he mean by HIS Naomi? Could this be my father? Of course he is not my FATHER or is he??? All this question flashed in my brain all at once. This could'nt be true!! Didnt they know I could walk seven years ago!?!? " Come on sweety you can walk!" said the mysterious man and then I was walking. For some reason i found it very hard to walk. "Yes your walking" said the pregnant Skyla. Then i saw a mirror I was'nt myself!! I was a three year old!! But how could this be? This must be a dream, i thought as i came closser to the tall man. He had a clip on his chest its said Santiago. Wait!!! This might be my father but there must be lots of Santiago's in Mexico! But a felling of joyness crept up me and I held the mans hand. I felt a shock....... Then i opened my eyes. an old woman was holding my hand, a weird looking kid was towering above me with a a worried expression on his face. The ground was shaking and I could'nt remember who I was!!!!!!
Wiiings9000- An angry, stomp-my-foot felling rose from a place I didn't know. I wish I could SCREAM. WHAT MOTHER WOULD ABANDONDED THEIR OWN KIDS IN A STORM! The words just fell out of my mouth, with a final puff I said I WILL NOT GO TO VAGAS WITH YOU! YOU HEAR ME!? NOT GOING!!! Surprised and satisfied I calmed but, to soon. Skyla BOOMED at the top of her lungs YOU ARE COMING WHETHER OR NOT YOU LIKE IT YOU ARE COMING TO VAGAS!
asa9111- An angry stomp my-foot-feeling rose from somewhere I never knew existed. There is no way I am ever going to Las Vegas with a drug addict, I don't even care if I have to run away! I was surprised in what I just said. I knew that I had made a big mistake. Skyla screamed ''You will come to Las Vagas no matter what, I dont care if it means killing gram and every body else at lemon tree, so you will have no here else to go except for coming with me!~''You are wrong Skyla! I still have my father so I wont have to go with you! Your father, you won't even be able to find that idiot of a man! For a second there was complete silence. Then Skyla rushed out of the room, put her cherry colored lipstick in a perfect M shape, and pulled out of lemon tree in her red mustang going at least forty miles per hour.
Livliv-On page 117 when Skyla doesn't want Owen to keep wearing his tape but Owen still wants to, Skyla gets mad and says that if he doesn't his new bike is going in the trash. Then Naomi says, "It wouldn't hurt anything." That shows that she can stand up for Owen even if Skyla has temper swings. When Skyla was telling Naomi to start packing she said to Skyla, "You can't tell us what to do." that means that she is sticking up for herself and Owen.
Lighthouse-I agree with Livliv!
asa9111-I agree to!
Wiiings9000-Naomi is motherly because she does what she does not normaly do she stood up for Owen and said the tape wouldn't hurt anyone,it is just tape, not a knife or a gun.
Pufferfish- she told Owen that everything was all right. Also, she stood between Skyla and Owen and told her that Owen could wear tape because it wouldn't hurt anyone.
What do you think Skyla was referring to when she was on the phone?
Livliv-I think that Skyla was talking to Clive and saying that she was going to bring Naomi to Las Vegas with her, but that she wasn't going to bring Owen after what had happened at the Children's Hospital.
Pufferfish- I think that she was talking to Clive and saying that Naomi was coming, but Owen was not, because the doctors couldn't do anything for him until he was older and Skyla thinks he's a Blem.
Dog998- I think Skyla was talking to Clive about finding a way to have Naomi come along with them.
asa9111-I also think that Skyla was talking to Clive and saying that Naomi would come to Las Vegas and Owen wouldn't because of his disabilities.
Why or why not do you think Skyla would really hurt Gram?
Livliv-I think that Skyla would hurt Gram if she was drunk, but I also think that Skyla might just be threatening Naomi to tell her, if you don't come, there's going to be trouble.
Lighthouse- I think that she would really hurt Gram so Naomi would officailly be her child, but she probabley wouldn't take Owen in, but Naomi wouldn't go, but if their father shows up he might be able to take them instead of Skyla.
jd58 - I normally might have thought that Skyla was bluffing but in this case she sounded dead serious. She said, "You know if anything happens to Gram all you'll have is me anyway. something could happen to her any time now, old as she is. You wouldn't want that, would you?"
Pufferfish- I think she might hurt Gram so Naomi comes, but I think she's just threatening, because she would go to court and wouldn't kill her grandma, even though she's so horrible.
Dogs998- I think Skyla said that because he was mad and posibly drunk. But maybe if Skyla gets more drunk and crazy she might do some harm to Gram in a fisical way.
Pick an intense moment in the chapter and INVENT dialogue that you think one of the characters involved really wanted to say. Start with the page number, then the line in the book that comes right before your invented dialogue. Then begin your creative writing! It should be a solid paragraph worth of writing. There is a LOT here to be very emotional about!
Lighthouse- pg 115
"This kid's a Blem. He's crooked and he can't talk right. Well, that's no bargain in my book!", Skyla's face started turning a deep red. Suddenly, a deep feeling arose in me, a feeling I have never felt before.
"Skyla, how could..... how could you say that about your OWN son! It's not his fault he was born like that, in fact it might have been YOUR fault because", Skyla's to big, round eyes met my eyes like a hawk, I didn't want to finish my sentence, what would Skyla say. I didn't care about her, my own mother was insulting my brother, I finished the sentence anyway,"Because you are alcoholic. Maybe, just maybe if you hadn't done all those bad things, he wouldn't have been this way. Don't yell Owen and the doctors for your mistake," I started lowering my voice, Skyla's face turned even more red before.
"WHAT? How did you know? It is NOT my fault for what Owen looks like now," by that point Skyla was screaming. All of a sudden, Owen walked in. He must have heard what Skyla was saying, and what I was saying. A small tear went down his cheek.
"Is that r-r-really why I am like this, because you were drinking and taking drugs?", Owen said this in a small unconfident voice.
Skyla turned a bright pink, the doctors stared at her. She atarted to talk very softly,"Of course not, why would you say such a thing,". In a loud boming voice she said,"Naomi and Owen get all of your stuff, were leaving," and she bomed out of the room, barely caring about us.
Jman10- pg.122
"I know you can hear me, Naomi. Your going with me one way or another!"
As soon as she said that Owen and I were almost at the heart of the grove. I
thought I would never go back untill Skyla would think she would be late to
pick up Saphire. I looked at Owen who was behind another tree and said "I
know why you are like this way. I saw a beer bottle in Clive's car and havent
you noticed she smells like rum, well its because she drinks rum." Owen
looked at me as if I were crazy but he nodded in agreement.
LivLiv-pg 117
I was shaking leaf but my instincts moved my body right between Owen and Skyla. I said, “It doesn’t hurt anything.” The second I said it I knew it was the wrong thing. Skyla pushed Owen aside and looked at me with the eyes of a hawk. “You’re going to be the one hurting Naomi sweaty pie if you don’t shut your mouth. You know the more I get to know you guys the more I realize what a genius I was to leave you with your idiot Gram.” “D-d-don’t c-call G-Gram, an i-idiot.” Sputtered Owen, and then tapped the place on his chest where the tape lay with pride. “Look little squirt don’t you dare tell me who I can’t call an idiot and who can.” Spat Skyla had if the words were like bullets shooting out of her mouth. Then Owen darted behind me so Skyla’s glare would not meat his eyes.
I didn’t know what to say. I wanted to explode, and I could almost fell the steam about to come out of my ears. Skyla smirked at me with a you-can-never-beat-me, kind of look, and I wanted to scream in her face and punch her and grab her now pumpkin colored hair and pull it all out! Then I asked a question. The question that had been aching in my heart just to spill out. “W-why did you leave us?” and as I said it I felt stupid, and ashamed that I asked such a childish question. The next thing I heard was no surprise to me. “That is none of you business, thank you very much!” Skyla said back. Then she extracted a small bottle from her purse and swigged a huge gulp. Right there is when I couldn’t take it any longer, there she was, drinking and not caring about any of this, while my heart was throbbing and my mind was spinning in circles. Then I blew up. “You say your so embarrassed that Owen is a birth defect! But all this time you havn’t realized that it is YOUR fault! If you hadn’t been drinking before he was born he might have been normal! You take no responsibility for what you have done you, you monster!” I was so alarmed about what had just come out of me, what I had just said. As Skyla thaught of her reply I pondered over what I had said. Could it have been true that she had been the cause of Owen being a birth defect? The more I thought about it the more a red hot burning felling of hatred crawled to the side of my mind where Skyla was.
Pufferfish- That she might kill Gram? I felt my temper rising from a place I never knew existed. "First of all, if you hurt Gram, you'll be in trouble, and second of all, I'm not going with a drug addict! And why did you even call Owen a Blem? Why would you hate your own child? You might even be the cause of him being like this, since you probably were drinking all the time!" Owen stared at Skyla. "You take drugs?" he whined. Skyla talked quietly. "No one talks to me like that, and I mean no one." Her voice began to get louder and angrier. "I need these to help me get through my life, and it's none of your business. Now, Naomi," she said, her voice switching to sugar, "help me find that rose tulip lipstick, you know we are two peas in a pod?" "No we aren't." And with that I shoved her against the sofa, grabbed Owen's arm, opened the door, and ran till I got to Fabiola's house.
jd58-pg 119
A mean, stomp-my-foot feeling rose from a place I didn't know existed in my mind. I wished I could throw my anger at Skyla and yell, so I did. I scremed at the top of my lungs "you are no mother you abanded us during a storm! You don't take care of us Gram does and does a great job you couden't take care of us if you tried. I am also not going to Las Vegas with you and Clive I like it here with my freinds and gram and owen. I am not going to Las Vegas no matter what you say or tell me!!
"Dogs"- A sleepy eyed Owen turned to as me baby beluga shook more and MORE.I went over to Owen and held tight to his soft and warm hand and then I fell!! But not only did that happen the next thing I knew I fell into a deep, deep dream."Walk honey!!" said a pregnant and yound version of Skyla, right next to her was a man he looked a lot like me and he said "Yes please come my beautifull Naomi!!" What wat did he mean by HIS Naomi? Could this be my father? Of course he is not my FATHER or is he??? All this question flashed in my brain all at once. This could'nt be true!! Didnt they know I could walk seven years ago!?!? " Come on sweety you can walk!" said the mysterious man and then I was walking. For some reason i found it very hard to walk. "Yes your walking" said the pregnant Skyla. Then i saw a mirror I was'nt myself!! I was a three year old!! But how could this be? This must be a dream, i thought as i came closser to the tall man. He had a clip on his chest its said Santiago. Wait!!! This might be my father but there must be lots of Santiago's in Mexico! But a felling of joyness crept up me and I held the mans hand. I felt a shock....... Then i opened my eyes. an old woman was holding my hand, a weird looking kid was towering above me with a a worried expression on his face. The ground was shaking and I could'nt remember who I was!!!!!!
Wiiings9000- An angry, stomp-my-foot felling rose from a place I didn't know. I wish I could SCREAM. WHAT MOTHER WOULD ABANDONDED THEIR OWN KIDS IN A STORM! The words just fell out of my mouth, with a final puff I said I WILL NOT GO TO VAGAS WITH YOU! YOU HEAR ME!? NOT GOING!!! Surprised and satisfied I calmed but, to soon. Skyla BOOMED at the top of her lungs YOU ARE COMING WHETHER OR NOT YOU LIKE IT YOU ARE COMING TO VAGAS!
asa9111- An angry stomp my-foot-feeling rose from somewhere I never knew existed. There is no way I am ever going to Las Vegas with a drug addict, I don't even care if I have to run away! I was surprised in what I just said. I knew that I had made a big mistake. Skyla screamed ''You will come to Las Vagas no matter what, I dont care if it means killing gram and every body else at lemon tree, so you will have no here else to go except for coming with me!~'' You are wrong Skyla! I still have my father so I wont have to go with you! Your father, you won't even be able to find that idiot of a man! For a second there was complete silence. Then Skyla rushed out of the room, put her cherry colored lipstick in a perfect M shape, and pulled out of lemon tree in her red mustang going at least forty miles per hour.